EP2669464A1 - Outil de nettoyage pour le nettoyage d'un puits de forage et procédé de nettoyage d'un puits de forage utilisant un tel outil de nettoyage - Google Patents

Outil de nettoyage pour le nettoyage d'un puits de forage et procédé de nettoyage d'un puits de forage utilisant un tel outil de nettoyage Download PDF

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EP2669464A1
EP2669464A1 EP13178757.4A EP13178757A EP2669464A1 EP 2669464 A1 EP2669464 A1 EP 2669464A1 EP 13178757 A EP13178757 A EP 13178757A EP 2669464 A1 EP2669464 A1 EP 2669464A1
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tubular barrel
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out tool
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Hendrik Berend Davids
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B27/00—Containers for collecting or depositing substances in boreholes or wells, e.g. bailers, baskets or buckets for collecting mud or sand; Drill bits with means for collecting substances, e.g. valve drill bits
    • E21B27/04—Containers for collecting or depositing substances in boreholes or wells, e.g. bailers, baskets or buckets for collecting mud or sand; Drill bits with means for collecting substances, e.g. valve drill bits where the collecting or depositing means include helical conveying means
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B10/00—Drill bits
    • E21B10/44—Bits with helical conveying portion, e.g. screw type bits; Augers with leading portion or with detachable parts
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B37/00—Methods or apparatus for cleaning boreholes or wells
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
    • E21B7/003—Drilling with mechanical conveying means
    • E21B7/005—Drilling with mechanical conveying means with helical conveying means
    • E21B7/006—Drilling with mechanical conveying means with helical conveying means combined with a bucket-type container

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  • the present invention relates to a well clean-out tool and, in particular, to a well clean-out tool for removing debris or other material from well bores with sub-hydrostatic reservoir pressure, well bores where sufficient lifting velocity cannot be achieved or wellbores filled with high density debris or other material which cannot be circulated to the surface.
  • an object of the invention to alleviate the above-discussed shortcomings and to provide a clean-out tool and method for efficiently cleaning out oil, gas and uranium well bores in general, in particular well bores with lost circulation or formations with sub-hydrostatic pressure, where low reservoir pressure prevents debris or other material being circulated to the surface, where settling velocity of the particles exceeds the lifting velocity due to the ratio between well inside diameters and achievable fluid and/or gas pump rates or where the density of the debris or other material prevents such debris or other material being circulated to the surface.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide such a clean-out tool and method with which a well bore can be cleaned-out effectively without having a negative effect on the producing formation and without adding any fluid to the well bore.
  • a clean-out tool for cleaning out a well bore comprising:
  • the scoop openings are provided in the conical or bottom part so that - in use - debris or other material can be effectively removed from the well bore.
  • the helical blade flight extends to within the hollow bit, preferably up to the second bearing, for efficiently conveying debris or other material from the scoop openings into the tubular barrel and further displacing the debris into the tubular barrel.
  • the hollow bit is removably connected to the tubular barrel. In this manner, maintenance and repair can be performed in a simple manner while it is also possible to remove debris or other material contained within the tubular barrel by removing the hollow bit from the tubular barrel.
  • the clean-out tool comprises a first bearing and connection subassembly, said first bearing and connection subassembly comprising the first bearing and being connectable to the drive mechanism.
  • the drive mechanism comprises a down-hole motor comprising a static or hollow shaft, said static shaft being coupled to the central shaft of the helical displacing member in a rotationally fixed manner or the central shaft of the helical displacing member is extended through the hollow shaft of the down hole motor and rotationally fixed in the work string above the down hole motor.
  • the first bearing and connection subassembly is removably connected to the tubular barrel.
  • the clean-out tool comprises an anchor extending in longitudinal direction from the hollow bit, said anchor comprising an anchor shaft extending through the hollow bit, said anchor shaft being coupled to the central shaft of the helical displacing member in a rotationally fixed manner.
  • the helical displacing member can be held stationary by the anchor, which - in use - is pressed in the debris or other material.
  • Such an anchor can be used in addition to or as an alternative to a down-hole motor comprising a static shaft coupled to the central shaft of the helical displacing member.
  • the tubular barrel comprises at least one slot for passing fluids, gas or air within the tubular barrel to outside the tubular barrel.
  • Such slots enable fluids, gas or air present in the debris or other material to be squeezed out of the tubular barrel through the slots to prevent pressure built up inside the tubular barrel.
  • the dimensions, i.e. length and width, of the slots are preferably chosen in dependence of the size and kind of the debris or other material.
  • the helical displacing member comprises an upper part in which the central shaft is free from helical blade flight which can provide more compacting of the debris.
  • the slots are provided in an upper part of the tubular barrel, which upper part of the tubular barrel surrounds the upper part of the helical displacing member which is free from helical blade flight compacting can be performed very efficiently, as a result of which more debris or other material can be contained within the tubular barrel.
  • a predefined working clearance between a cylindrical volume occupied by said helical displacing member and an inner surface of said tubular barrel is such that, in use, a stable layer of material is formed against said inner surface of said tubular barrel, said stable layer urging a mass of material within said tubular barrel along a helical path by frictional engagement between said stable layer and said mass of material.
  • Such a clearance can provide an efficient fill of the tubular barrel and prevents wear of the inner wall of the tubular barrel through metal-on-metal contact and lock up of the tubular barrel against the helical displacing member in the tubular barrel.
  • the material Due to the contact frictional engagement between the material and the inner wall of the tubular barrel the material is caused to rotate inside the tubular barrel where it encounters the static helical displacing member.
  • the rotating tubular barrel pushes the debris or other material along the helical blade flight inward the tubular barrel and the tubular barrel can become completely filled with debris or other material.
  • it is then in particular advantageous that the material inside the rotating tubular barrel will only move by the same amount of debris or other material as is additional taken in via the scoop openings of the hollow bit.
  • the clean-out tool can be sized and extended with various diameters and lengths of screw and tube sections to accommodate the well bore and/or the well bore surface lubricator configurations.
  • the present invention further relates to a method for cleaning out a well bore using a clean-out tool according to the invention, comprising the steps of:
  • the step of removing debris or other material out of the tubular barrel comprises the step of removing at least one of the hollow bit and the first bearing and connection subassembly from the tubular barrel.
  • said method comprises the steps of:
  • the clean-out tool 1 comprises a tubular barrel 2 surrounding a helical displacing member 3 comprising a central shaft 4 with a helical blade flight 5 extending about the circumference of central shaft 4.
  • the shaft 4 is fixedly mounted (in a rotational manner) to a static shaft 6 of a down-hole motor 7 which forms the drive mechanism for the clean-out tool 1 .
  • FIG. 1A the positioning of the clean-out tool 1 is shown - in use - in which the helical displacing member is supported, with a longitudinal axis 8 in a substantially upright position.
  • the helical displacing member need not be placed substantially upright but operates as well when positioned horizontally or under an angle to the horizontal plane.
  • the helical displacing member 3 is thus secured against rotation about the longitudinal axis 8.
  • the tubular barrel 2 surrounds the helical displacing member 3 and is rotatably journalled in a first bearing 9 and a second bearing 10, spaced from the first bearing 9.
  • the first bearing 10 is included in a first bearing and connection subassembly 11, which in the shown embodiment is removably connectable to the drive mechanism 7 (schematically shown) and the tubular barrel 2.
  • the tubular barrel 2 further comprises a hollow bit 12 at a free end of the tubular barrel 2.
  • the second bearing 10 is provided within the hollow bit 12.
  • the hollow bit 12 comprises a cylindrical part 12A with substantially uniform diameter and a conical part 12B with reducing diameter. Please note that although the conical part 12B is shown as being pointed, it is in other - not shown - embodiments possible that the conical part is more flattened.
  • Scoop openings 13 are provided in the conical part 12B for enabling debris to enter into the tubular barrel 2. In the shown embodiment there are two, almost triangular shaped scoop openings 13 in the conical part 12B.
  • the helical blade flight 5 extends to within the hollow bit 12, preferably up to the second bearing 10, and thus has a reducing diameter in a direction toward the second bearing 10.
  • the hollow bit 12 is removably connected to the tubular barrel 2, e.g. by a threaded connection as indicated in FIG. 1B .
  • FIG. 2A and 2B the clean-out tool 1 of FIG. 1 is shown in two positions during cleaning out debris D from a well bore WB which is pre-formed in a formation F (partly shown) .
  • the clean-out tool is lowered into the pre-formed well bore WB until the hollow bit 12 of said clean-out tool 1 engages debris D within said pre-formed well bore WB.
  • the drive mechanism 7 is activated causing the tubular barrel 2 surrounding the helical displacing member 3 to rotate (indicated by the arrow) about the longitudinal axis 8 while the helical displacing member 3 is kept stationary by the static shaft 6 of the down-hole motor 7 to convey debris D into the tubular barrel 2 via the scoop openings 13 and further into the tubular barrel 2 as indicated in Figure 2B .
  • the clean-out tool 1 is efficiently drilled into to debris D. Due to the first bearing 9 and the second bearing 10 the helical displacing member 3 will substantially not deform leading to a reproducible and constant operation of the clean-out tool 1 .
  • the clean-out tool 1 is pulled from the well bore WB.
  • the debris D can then be removed out of the tubular barrel 2 by e.g. disassembling the hollow bit 13 and the first bearing and connection subassembly 11.
  • the rotation direction is indicated as an example only and that it will be clear for a person skilled in the art that the rotation direction for displacing debris or other material into the tubular barrel depends on whether the helical blade flight 5 has a right hand or a left hand wound screw. Of course the down hole motor needs to be modified accordingly.
  • FIG. 3A schematically a cross-sectional side elevation of an alternative embodiment of a clean-out tool 1 according to the invention is shown which comprises an anchor 14, which is shown in FIG. 3B as seen from the free end of the tubular barrel 2.
  • the anchor 14 extends in longitudinal direction from the hollow bit 13 and comprises an anchor shaft 15 extending through the hollow bit 12.
  • the anchor shaft 15 is coupled to the central shaft 4 of the helical displacing member 3 in a rotationally fixed manner and holds the helical displacing member static.
  • the drive mechanism 7' (schematically shown) does not need to have a static shaft connected to the central shaft 4 but can be formed by any other known drive mechanism able to rotate the tubular barrel 2.
  • FIGs. 4A and 4B show the clean-out tool 1 of FIG. 3 in two positions during cleaning out debris D from a well bore WB which is pre-formed in a formation F (partly shown).
  • the clean-out tool is lowered into the pre-formed well bore WB until the anchor 14 of the hollow bit 12 of said clean-out tool 1 engages debris D within said pre-formed well bore WB.
  • the drive mechanism 7' is activated causing the tubular barrel 2 surrounding the helical displacing member 3 to rotate (indicated by the arrow) about the longitudinal axis 8 while the helical displacing member 3 is kept stationary by the anchor 14 to convey debris D into the tubular barrel 2 via the scoop openings 13 and further into the tubular barrel 2 as indicated in Figure 4B .
  • the clean-out tool 1 is efficiently drilled into to debris D. Due to the first bearing 9 and the second bearing 10 the helical displacing member 3 will substantially not deform leading to a reproducible and constant operation of the clean-out tool 1 . After the tubular barrel 2 is sufficiently filled the clean-out tool 1 is pulled from the well bore WB.
  • the debris D can then be removed out of the tubular barrel 2 by e.g. disassembling the hollow bit 13 and the first bearing and connection subassembly 11. Please note that in this embodiment it is not necessary to use a drive mechanism having a static shaft but any other available drive mechanism can be used.
  • FIG. 5 shows yet another embodiment of a clean-out tool 1 according to the invention comprising slots in the tubular barrel 2.
  • FIG. 6 shows a further embodiment of a clean-out tool 1 according to the invention in which an upper end 3A of the helical displacing member 3 is free from a helical blade flight 5.
  • the slots 16 are only provided in an upper part 2A of the tubular barrel, which upper part 2A of the tubular barrel surrounds the upper part 3A of the helical displacing member which is free from helical blade flight 5.
  • a predefined working clearance C between a cylindrical volume occupied by said helical displacing member 3 and an inner surface 20 of said tubular barrel 2 is such that, in use, a stable layer of material is formed against said inner surface 20 of said tubular barrel 2.
  • the stable layer urges - in use a mass of material within said tubular barrel 2 along the helical path by frictional engagement between said stable layer and said mass of material.
EP13178757.4A 2013-07-31 2013-07-31 Outil de nettoyage pour le nettoyage d'un puits de forage et procédé de nettoyage d'un puits de forage utilisant un tel outil de nettoyage Withdrawn EP2669464A1 (fr)

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